US4004880A - Method and apparatus for cushioning continuous exothermal reactions - Google Patents

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US4004880A
US4004880A US05/581,935 US58193575A US4004880A US 4004880 A US4004880 A US 4004880A US 58193575 A US58193575 A US 58193575A US 4004880 A US4004880 A US 4004880A
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  • the field of the invention is chemical apparatus having tanks, and the present invention particularly relates to a method and apparatus for cushioning continuous exothermal reactions with, or in the presence of liquefied gases.
  • the present invention has as an object means for containing continuous exothermal reactions with or in the presence of liquefied gases, without there being a loss of same and simultaneously observing ecological and safety regulations, and to do so in as simple a manner as possible.
  • the present invention makes use of apparatus comprising at least one gas exhaust line from the reactor with a blocking valve responding to over-pressure, a condenser so connected with a cooling medium supply vessel that the cooling means without application of external energy flows into the condenser through a blocking valve actuated simultaneously as that of the gas exhaust line, and an accumulator connected to the condenser.
  • the liquefied gases are expanded through at least one gas exhaust line provided with a blocking valve responding to over-pressure. Because of the expansion evaporation, both pressure and temperature rapidly drop inside the reactor.
  • the gases escaping from the reactor are fed through a gas exhaust line into a condenser and are condensed therein.
  • Conventional condensers of the state of the art for instance boiler-tube nest heat exchangers are used as condensers.
  • cooling media which will boil in the cooling process, and also those which will not boil.
  • the cooling means must be capable of flowing from the cooling medium supply vessel into the condenser without requiring external power, such as by gravity or by means of compressed gas.
  • Cooling liquids boiling during the cooling process allow the mounting of the cooling medium supply vessel and the condenser at the same height or elevation, provided the self-generated pressure or fluid head of the cooling medium is large enough to make the same flow also in such a case into the condenser without requiring external power.
  • media boiling in the cooling process such as ammonia
  • media boiling in the cooling process holds the advantage of the cooling medium supply vessel being kept smaller in size.
  • an additional absorption system for the evaporated cooling medium is then required, to prevent the matter from entering the atmosphere.
  • the cooling medium supply in the supply vessel is large enough to condense the entire gas content of the reactor.
  • the blocking valves at the reactor and at the cooling medium supply vessel are opened synchronously and that the supply of cooling medium to the condenser is large enough to rapidly condense the gases escaping from the reactor. This is achieved through mechanical, electrical or pneumatic coupling of the blocking valves at the reactor and at the cooling medium supply vessel.
  • the condensate obtained in the condenser is collected in a pressure accumulator and may be used again. If the condensate tends toward polymerization, then to avoid this polymerization, minute amounts of a stopper solution are placed in the accumulator. It is especially advantageous to place the stopper solution in a "liquid bag" at the bottom of the accumulator, the condensate being made to pass by means of a dip-pipe through this liquid bag. This achieves especially good mixing.
  • FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic plan view of the apparatus of the present invention having one blocking valve in the gas escape line synchronously controlled along with one blocking valve in the cooling medium line;
  • FIG. 2 is a diagrammatic plan view of the apparatus of the present invention having two blocking valves in the gas escape line and two blocking valves in the cooling medium line;
  • FIG. 3 is a diagrammatic plan view of the apparatus of the present invention having three blocking valves in the gas escape line and three blocking valves in the cooling medium line.
  • Valves 3 and 5 are actuated by pressure controller 20.
  • the pressure controller 20 receives an electric signal output from a pressure transducer in the vapor space of reactor 1 and opens valves 3 and 5 beyond a given excess pressure and then closes them when the pressure drops off.
  • the opening of valves 3 and 5 can also be controlled by pneumatic means. The condensate obtained is collected in accumulator 7.
  • a separator is suitably mounted ahead of the condenser.
  • a cyclone, for instance, or a suitably designed pressure vessel may be used as the separator.
  • the latter's blocking valve preferably should be rinsed with a suitable liquid to prevent clogging of the blocking valve.
  • FIG. 2 A preferred embodiment is shown in FIG. 2. Besides the elements shown in FIG. 1, there is a further gas exhaust line 8 provided with a blocking valve 9. Valve 9 is coupled to another blocking valve 10, which controls the supply of cooling medium from the cooling medium supply vessel 6. A separator 11 is mounted ahead of the condenser 4.
  • blocking valves 3 and 5 are opened first. If the pressure in the reactor fails to drop rapidly enough, a subsequent pressure controller 26 additionally opens blocking valves 9 and 10, and more expansion takes place. When materials are present in the reactor, which under the particular reaction conditions are easily polymerized, then rinsing blocking valves 3 and 9 with a suitable liquid through line 12 prevents clogging.
  • the method of the present invention may be applied to all exothermal reactions with or in the presence of liquefied gases, for instance in polymerization reactions of vinyl chloride, ethylene, propene, butene, butadiene or the like, as disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,749,555 and 3,793,259.
  • the apparatus of the present invention comprising accumulator, condenser, cooling medium supply vessel and where desired separator, may be designed in very compact form. Parts of the apparatus of the present invention also may be used during the normal sequence of a reaction in order to recover the residual gases still in the reactor at the end of a reaction taking place therein.
  • the residual gas under pressure is expanded through an additional gas exhaust line 13 provided with a blocking valve 14 at the reactor and actuated by controller 28.
  • the cooling medium is not supplied from the cooling medium supply vessel but rather through line 15. It can flow through blocking valve 16, which is coupled with blocking valve 14, into the condenser, the moment blocking valves 14 and 16 are opened.
  • blocking valves 3 and 5 or 9 and 10 are simultaneously opened with blocking valve 17.
  • a back pressure valve 18 prevents the cooling medium from flowing out of the cooling medium supply vessel into line 15 when, according to the present invention, the cooling medium flows from the cooling medium supply vessel into the condenser during a complete reaction in the reactor.
  • the method and apparatus of the present invention surprisingly protects in simple manner the reactor from bursting in the presence of complete exothermal reactions, without requiring discharging explosive or toxic gases into the atmosphere.
  • the method of the present invention furthermore suffers no less of input materials. Also, high reliability and safety is achieved for large reactors, while simultaneously preventing damage or jeopardy of any kind to the environment.
  • FIG. 2 shows the apparatus of the present invention.
  • the reactor holds 200 cubic meters and contains about 60 metric tons of vinyl chloride, 110 tons of water, activators and suspension means.
  • the temperature in the reactor is about 60° C and the pressure is about 10 atmospheres.
  • the capacity of the cooling medium supply vessel is about 200 cubic meters and it holds 200 cubic meters of cooling water at about 20° C.
  • a nest of boiler tubes heat exchanger is used as condenser 4.
  • Sliders with pneumatic control are used as the blocking valves at the reactor and at the cooling medium supply vessel. These valves are coupled through an electrical circuit.
  • a direct digital control (DDC) system monitors whether the pressure in the reactor drops fast enough upon opening blocking valves 3 and 5. If not, the DDC system additionally opens blocking valves 9 and 10 and the control variable is pressure.
  • DDC direct digital control
  • the pressure in the reactor rises to about 14.5 atmospheres, the pneumatically driven blocking valves at the reactor and at the cooling medium supply vessel are opened by means of the electrical circuit. Thereupon within about 10 minutes, approximately 180 cubic meters of cooling liquid flows through the condenser. The pressure in the reactor is about 10 atmospheres within about 5 minutes, and the temperature drops to about 60° C. Approximately 30 metric tons of vinyl chloride are condensed in this step.

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